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Benjamin Haydon

All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
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Evil Government Monarchy Two
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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Mind Prejudice Serious
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Men Nerves Ordinary
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
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Belief Causes Vices
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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Feelings Men Pain Poetry
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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Believe Disinterestedness Men
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
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Men Procrastination Views
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
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Believe God Justice Mercy
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Evil Human Nature Propensity
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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Evil Men Successful
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent

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